File consists of sixty seven items of correspondence between James Downey and Jessie Griffith, with whom Downey boarded.

File consists of seven items of correspondence between James Downey and Hewlett Packard (Canada) relating to Downey's time as a member of the Board of Directors.

File consists of three items of correspondence between James Downey and Arthur Johnston. Also includes Johnston's CV and proposed research fellow program.

File consists of ninety four items of correspondence between James Downey and Irene Leckie. Also includes one clipping about Irene and an obituary.

File consists of ninety five items of correspondence between James Downey and Anne Martin. Includes a CV and materials relating to a project that the two worked on of an edition of "The Sermons of Mr. Yorick" by Laurence Sterne. Also includes correspondence to others involved with the Sterne project, and academic materials relating to Anne Martin.

File consists of ca. one hundred fifty items of correspondence from James Downey to Colin and Mary Mackay between the years 1995 and 1997. Note that correspondence from this time period may appear in other files.

File consists of ca. two hundred fifty items of correspondence between Colin & Mary Mackay and James Downey between the years 1990-2003. Note that correspondence from this time period may appear in other files.

File consists of ca. three hundred items of correspondence from James Downey to Colin and Mary Mackay between the years 1990 and 2003. Note that this binder of correspondence was created by James Downey and that further correspondence from this time frame may be found in other files.

File consists of ca. three hundred items of correspondence from James Downey to Colin and Mary Mackay between the years 1990 and 2003. Note that this binder of correspondence was created by James Downey and that further correspondence from this time frame may be found in other files.

File consists of twenty five items of correspondence between James Downey and others for the year 1996. Correspondents include:

• Atkinson, George;
• Beattie, A.M.;
• Brown, Jack;
• Cohen, H. Reulen;
• Daal, Gus and Willie and Remco;
• Daniel, John;
• Davis, William G.;
• Eyton, Trevor;
• Flagg, Mary;
• Fulford, Robert;
• Griensan, [?];
• Ianni, Ron;
• Inkster, Elke;
• Irving, Sandra;
• LaRocque, Judith A.;
• MacGuire, Robert C.;
• Roschart, Robert;
• Scott, Bill;
• Simpson, Jeffrey;
• Sirluck, Ernest;
• Wente, Margaret.

File consists of fifty two items of miscellaneous personal correspondence between James Downey and others for the years 1999-2000. Correspondents include: Adam, Stuart; Archer, Kate; Beattie, Lorraine; Bird, Phil; Butt, Arthur; Campbell, Douglas; Clark, Ian; Cook, John; Cowan, Ann; Flagg, Mary; Frampton, Ethel; Gaulin, Michel; George, Peter; Giroux, Robert; Globe and Mail; Globus, Swani & Morton; Green, Bert; Higgins, Michael; Kalbfleisch, Jim; Konrad, Helmut; Lynch, David; Maymusson, Lynne; McKane, Paul; Milne-Smith, Carol & Ian; Mitchell, Paul D.; Mogridge, Behill; Morris, Claire & John; Parr-Johnston, Elizabeth; Patterson, Stephen E.; Pereira, Maria C.; Piper, Martha; Rymes, Tom K.; Sevcik, Ken; Shantz, Susan; Sievwright, Georgia; Simpson, Ronald D.; Skibsrud, Johanna; Smith, Rev. Mary; Van Loon, Richard J.; Vinnicombe, Elizabeth; Wicks, Ed; Wiffen, Bob; Woerner, Anna; Zanna, Betsy.

File consists of forty items of miscellaneous correspondence between James Downey and others for the years 2000-2001. Correspondents include: Cavan, Rosemary; Crawford, Purdy; Cunningham, Pat; De la Daurantaye, Claire V.; Dixon, Ross and Doris; Flanagan, Frank and Rita; Ford, Christine Tausig; Golini, Vera; Graham, Mary; Greenberg, Joel; Higgins, Michael W.; Johnston, Ann Dowsett; Kieswette, Linda; Konrad, Helmut; Krupke, Emma; Lajeunesse, Claude; Leggett, William; Lithgow, Kathy, Vanessa and Rebecca; Lundy, Jim; Miller, Judith; Montague, Susan; O'Donovan, Val; Reid, Hugh; Robbins, K. Thomas; Rymes, Thomas Kenneth; Strangway, David; Wicks, Ed; Wu, Michael and Teresa.

File consists of seventy six items of miscellaneous correspondence between James Downey and others for the year 2001. Correspondents include:

• Aitken, Lady Violet;
• Anderson, John;
• Armitage, Howard;
• Barry, Michael H.;
• Berland, Kevin;
• Bird, J.W. Bud;
• Carty, Arthur J.;
• Chakma, Amit;
• Cook, Nancy;
• Currie, Richard J.;
• Davenport, Paul;
• De la Durantague, Claire V.;
• Dellandrea, J.S.;
• English, John;
• Foster, Florence;
• Gillham, Robert;
• Goodwin, Ed;
• Graham, Mary;
• Green, Irvin;
• Hallman, Lyle and Wendy;
• Heroux, M. Michel;
• Hiscock, Ethel and Ralph;
• Hnatyshyn, Ray and Gerda;
• Hobday, John;
• Kildaris, Fred;
• Konrad, Helmut;
• Krupke, Erma;
• Lemessurier, Bob;
• MacDonald, Alastair;
• Maiden, Colin and Jenefor;
• McCarthy, Sheila and Mac;
• McCutchan, Walter;
• Mitchell, Paul D.;
• Monkman, Julia;
• Nicholson, Doris;
• O'Donovan, Valentine;
• Parsons, June;
• Reid, Hugh;
• Saunders Bellingham, Susan;
• Simpson, Ronald;
• Strangway, David;
• Szathmary, Emoke J.E.;
• Talbot-Allan, Laura;
• Thayer Scott, Jacqueline;
• Thompson, John;
• Van Loon, Richard J.;
• W., Doug; Watts, Ronald L.;
• Wright, Janet;
• Wurtele, Douglas.

Correspondents listed in file 56.

File consists of seventeen items of correspondence between James Downey and Melvyn New. Also includes two offprints and one contract.

File consists of correspondence between James Downey and The Chancellery of Honours regarding nominations and letters of recommendation for the Order of Canada.

File consists of ca. one hundred items of correspondence between James Downey and Cyril F. Poole between 2012-2013.

File consists of ca. two hundred items of correspondence from Cyril F. Poole to James Downey between January and August, 2013.

File consists of ca. three hundred items of correspondence between James Downey and Cyril F. Poole for the years 2000-2009.

File consists of ca. three hundred items of correspondence from Cyril F. Poole to James Downey from 2010-2012.

File consists of ninety items of correspondence between James Downey and Robert Richards. Also includes accompanying materials including clippings, speeches, etc.

File consists of nine items of correspondence between James Downey and Mordecai Richler. Also includes a memoir written by Downey on Richler and related correspondence.

File consists of ca. fifty items of correspondence between Otto Tucker and James Downey between the years 2009-2010.

File consists of ca. one hundred items of correspondence between James Downey and Otto Tucker between the years 2006-2007.

File consists of ca. one hundred fifty items of correspondence between James Downey and Otto Tucker between 1980-2005.

File consists of two tss. (computer output) of the 2003 David C. Smith lecture "Schools are us" delivered by James Downey upon his receiving the David C. Smith Award.

File consists of materials relating to a special meeting of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony that was chaired by James Downey. Includes a clipping, voting information, agendas, and a transcript of opening remarks.

Series is comprised of works written by James Downey. Includes offprints of scholarly articles, articles published in university publications and materials related to his works on Sterne.

File consists of the November 1990 edition of University Affairs. The edition includes an opinion piece by James Downey titled "Can Universities Change."

File consists of journals with articles or reviews by James Downey. Includes:

• University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 1976;
• Innovative Higher Education, Vol. 25 No. 4, Summer 2001;
• Acadiensis, Spring 1999;
• The Humanities Association Review, Vol. 25, No.2, Spring 1974;
• University of Toronto Quarterly Fall 1981;
• English Studies in Canada Vol. IV, No. 2, Summer 1978;
• University of Toronto Quarterly, Summer 1980.

Materials related to James Downey's personal and professional life. Includes Downey's commonplace books which he used to take notes related to his day-to-day affairs and specific annotations in relation to different aspects of his professional and personal life. Also contains speeches and addresses Downey wrote and presented at various events and celebrations. Lastly, holds personal and professional correspondence related to different aspects of Downey's professional roles and personal life (with a significant presence of correspondence between Downey and his sisters).

James Downey’s commonplace book for the years 1975 to 1985. Consists of a notebook with newspaper clippings and handwritten annotations by Downey with general notes and titled sections.

James Downey’s commonplace book for the years 1985 to 1989. Consists of a notebook with newspaper clippings and handwritten annotations by Downey with general notes, notes for talks and conferences, and titled sections with quotations from different authors.

Materials related to speeches and addresses written and given by James Downey. Includes drafts and final versions of speeches, addresses, and toasts for different events, and remembrances for various persons. Also contains contextual information accumulated by Downey during the research and writing process (such as newspaper articles, photocopies of photographs, and ephemera).
Includes a drawing by Gerard Brender à Brandis titled “Winterton, Newfoundland.”

Materials related to speeches and papers written by James Downey between the years 2006 and 2012. Includes drafts and final versions of speeches.
Titles of speeches are:

• “Opening remarks for HEQCO Interview” (November 19, 2006),
• “Canadian undergraduate education: a light source in need of recharging,” AUCC President’s Circle, Saskatoon (April 18, 2007),
• “Quality assurance: Boon or Boondoggle?” Canadian Institutional Research and Planning Association, St. John’s (October 22, 2007),
• “Ryerson Board retreat” (October 29, 2007),
• “Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation Dinner” (February 8, 2008),
• “Accountability versus autonomy,” Meeting of vice-presidents Conference Board of Canada Quality Network for Universities (November 13, 2008),
• “Centenary dinner,” Winterton United Church (October 1, 2011),
• “Remarks for the launch of Lord Beaverbrook and the Kennedys,” Memorial Hall, UNB (May 15, 2012).

Correspondence sent and received by James Downey related to different areas of Downey's professional life. Includes letters of appreciation, tributes, newspaper clippings, and ephemera related to awards received and work performed by Downey in different roles and associations.
Also contains drafts of speeches and addresses related to Downey's work or roles, such as "Remarks by the Chancellor" during the official launch of Lord Beaverbrook and the Kennedys by James Downey (May 15, 2012) or "Commencement Address the University of Waterloo" by Trina McQueen, president, Discovery Channel (June 18, 1999).

Fonds consists of material relating to activities and interests of James Downey from 1963 to 2004. The fonds contains biographical information, manuscripts and typescripts of his published works and speeches, "commonplace books," files relating to his various academic positions, files relating to consulting and advisory work on behalf of provincial governments. Includes appointment calendars, clippings, personal and professional correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts and typescripts, reports and research materials.

Also includes papers received from Florence Reid.

Series consists of daily and weekly appointment calendars, as well as weekly schedules, belonging to James Downey.

File consists of one calendar pad refill, Carleton University.

File consists of one desk size and one pocket-size weekly appointment calendar.

File consists of one pocket-size weekly appointment calendar.

File consists of a briefing book belonging to James Downey relating to his activities as Commissioner on the New Brunswick Commission on Excellence in Education, established in 1991 by Premier Frank McKenna.

File consists of material relating to "Issues Paper I: Schools for a New Century." Includes correspondence, reports, presentation, responses to the issues paper.

File consists of clippings (originals and photocopies), three copies of "Schools for a new century : an issues paper on New Brunswick Education," prepared for Premier Frank McKenna by James Downey and James O'Sullivan, August 1991.

File consists of one binder assembled by James Downey relating to his activities as Advisor on Rural Education Strategy, a position to which he was appointed on May 1, 2003 by Elizabeth Witmer, Deputy Premier and Minister of Education for Ontario. Includes a copyof the final report.

File consists of publications issued by student bodies at the University of New Brunswick, each containing a president's message by James Downey.

File consists of issues of a University of New Brunswick publication containing photographs or mentions of James Downey, or pieces of interest to him.

File consists of a publication issued by the University of New Brunswick, with a foreword by the president, James Downey.

File consists of a report. James Downey was a member of this commission. This report does not mention him by name.

File consists of one piece "Ahead to the basics," Maclean's, March 17, 1994: 54.

File consists of material relating to courses taught at Carleton University between 1967 and 1980. Includes examinations set, course materials, class lists, grades, notes, course and instructor evaluations.

File consists of a published report of a committee chaired by J. Porter; James Downey was a member of the committee. Includes inserted ms. notes.

Series consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey from 1967 to 1993, most generated in the course of his academic and administrative positions at Carleton University, University of New Brunswick and the University of Waterloo.

File consists of correspondence to and from James Downey primarily relating to his academic interests, responsibilities and employment.

File consists of committee minutes: 1 set of minutes from 1968; the rest from 1970.

File consists of correspondence to and from James Downey primarily relating to his academic interests, responsibilities and employment.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey. Includes greeting cards.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey. Includes greeting cards and postcards.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey in his capacity as Vice-President, Academic at Carleton University. Includes a c.v., book lists and notes.

File consists of completed course evaluation forms.

File consists of employment and salary information relating to Dr. Downey & others at the University of New Brunswick; includes agreement.

File consists of correspondence relating to James Downey's position as Honourary Chairman of the Kidney Foundation March drive.

File consists of correspondence and other material relating to membership in and financial status of the club.

File consists of correspondence to and from James Downey in his capacity as President of the University of New Brunswick, relating to speaking engagements. Received correspondence bears the receipt stamp of the Office of the President. Includes some ms. and ts. speech notes and drafts, ephemera and greeting cards.

File consists of letters concerning James Downey's service as President of the University of New Brunswick; congratulations on being named Distinguished Citizen of Fredericton. Most bear the receipt stamp of the President's Office.

File consists of correspondence, ephemera and speech drafts.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey. Includes correspondence addressed to him at the University of New Brunswick and also in his capacity as Special Assistant to the President and Vice-president for External Relations, Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada, with AUCC receipt stamp. Includes a greeting cards.

File consists of correspondence and ephemera to and from James Downey in his role as Special Advisor to the President, AUCC.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey, living at that time in New Brunswick.. Includes greeting cards.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey, living at that time in Waterloo, Ont. Includes correspondence addressed toJames Downey in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo, bearing President's office receipt stamp. Includes a many greeting cards.

File consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from James Downey, living at that time in Waterloo, Ont. Includes correspondence addressed toJames Downey in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo. Includes a many greeting cards.

File consists of teaching notes and notes about students in classes taught by James Downey at the University of Waterloo.

File consists of speeches, speech notes, presentations and reviews, most by James Downey in his capacity as President of the University of New Brunswick. Some have Downey's ms. notes and corrections. Some pieces are photocopies; some are original tss. Includes a title page and a chronological table of contents.

File consists of correspondence to and from James Downey addressed to and answered by him in his capacity as President of the University of New Brunswick, requesting his services as a speaker. These letters date from 1982 to 1985. Includes lists of speaking engagements from 1980-1982.

File consists of photocopies of speeches with a cover page and table of contents, possibly intended for publication.

File consists of photocopies of speeches given by James Downey.

File consists of photocopies of speeches with a cover page, possibly intended for publication.

File consists of speeches and presentations by James Downey, most computer output. Includes a title page and a table of contents.

File consists of speeches, drafts, speech notes, presentations by James Downey in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo.

File consists of speeches and presentations by James Downey in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo, computer output. Includes a table of contents.

File consists of James Downey's file of speeches and speech drafts and notes, in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo.

File consists of James Downey's file of speeches and speech drafts and notes, in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo.

File consists of photocopies of speeches, speech notes, presentations by James Downey in his capacity as President of the University of Waterloo. Includes a table of contents.

Series consists of manuscripts and typescripts of works by James Downey, some with corrections and annotations. Includes a carbon ts. of the work that was to be published in 1969 under the title The Eightenth Century Pulpit.

File consists of a ts., 41 leaves (original) of a paper James Downey, Carleton University, Nov. 1976.

File consists primarily of notes made on sources: ms. and ts. notes in three notebooks. Includes ts. pages, loose and inserted, and photocopied pages from an unidentified source.

File consists of research material relating to Laurence Sterne. Includes ms. and ts. notes, photocopies, clippings.

File consists of a ts., [424] leaves (original) with corrections, in various page numberings.

File consists of page proofs , 247 p. with ms. corrections.

File consists of one ms., [58] leaves, one ts., 14 leaves (original) of a paper on evil in 18th-century sermons for presentation on the CBC program "Ideas." Includes the schedule of the series: "Ideas on evil: schedule of ideas programs, May 10-June 4, 1971."

Series consists of James Downey's files relating to friend and former student, Florence Reid. Includes correspondence to and from Florence Reid, clippings, manuscripts, tss., photographs, etc.

Accrual consists of materials relating to the personal and professional activities and interests of James Downey from 1966 to 2013. Includes primarily correspondence as well as files relating to committees, consulting work, and personal research interests.

File consists of materials relating to the rural education review for 2003. Includes ts. of the report, research information, correspondence and a map.

File consists of materials created and accumulated by James Downey relating to the Seminar for New University Presidents, which he led from 1999-2007. Includes correspondence, speeches, notes, and a seminar booklet.

File consists of a small bound book given to James Downey upon his thirtieth anniversary in academia. Includes ts. (computer output) letters and anecdotes from colleagues.

File consists of a small bound book given to James Downey upon his leaving his position at the University of Waterloo. Includes signed ts. (computer output) letters from colleagues.

File consists of 31 items of correspondence between James Downey and Ian Cameron, English professor at Carleton University.